Yup, continents are pretty much in the same places, less ice though and a bit warmer. We have more canals though, oh and lower crime rates, and a much lower poverty rate.
I didn't comment on it just to trash the author, though. If you're interested in the conditions and events that led up to WWI, it's a great story. Check out "The Sleepwalkers". It's a great book on the subject.
Using history as a jumping off point for political rhetoric is a neat device. I love it when authors go down that road. Usually, however, the author needs to flesh out their writing with a little more than simply one argument (the economics say so!) repeated in different ways. There was much more work here to be done.
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[ 3.0 ms ] story [ 19.0 ms ] threadI didn't comment on it just to trash the author, though. If you're interested in the conditions and events that led up to WWI, it's a great story. Check out "The Sleepwalkers". It's a great book on the subject.
https://www.amazon.com/Sleepwalkers-How-Europe-Went-1914/dp/...
Using history as a jumping off point for political rhetoric is a neat device. I love it when authors go down that road. Usually, however, the author needs to flesh out their writing with a little more than simply one argument (the economics say so!) repeated in different ways. There was much more work here to be done.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/05/09/reviews/990509.09bergh...